“Bridge Inscriptions: Radical Women of Color Envision—Pasts, Presents, Futures”
Friday, June 29 an all-conference tribute to
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color.
Tribute Panelists
 Aqua Moon is the writing, performance, and artistic team of camil.williams and veronica precious bohanan, an entity of SpokenExistence, Inc. We bridge the gap between the streets, hip-hop feminism, performance activism, and academia.
We are a voice for disenfranchise womyn and youth, until they are empowered to assert themselves and use their own voice. We generate and disseminate new discourse and dialogue on womyn and gender issues. AquaMoon works with educational and community-based organizations to
effect social change that will result in greater equality, freedom, and fuller lives for womyn and youth.
 Daisy Hernández writes personal essays, fiction and poetry. A Cubana-Colombiana, she is Managing Editor of ColorLines, the national newsmagazine on race and politics. Her writing focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color.
Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a B.A. in English from William Paterson College in 1997 and an M.A. in Journalism and Latin American Studies from New York University in 2001. She is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002).
She has written for the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her writing can also be found in the anthology Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass, and Cultural Shifting (Harper, 2004).
 Barbara K. Ige, Ph.D., is the Program Director for theNational Science Foundation's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ige earned her BA at the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in American Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to her arrival at UCLA's Graduate Division, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pitzer College, and an Academic Administrator for UCLA's Pre-Graduate/Pre-Professional Undergraduate Mentoring Program (PUMP) where she mentored over 1,000 first generation, low income, underserved and underrepresented undergraduates interested in pursuing advanced academic and professional degrees.
She is currently co-editing an anthology with Maria Ochoa, “Shout Out!: Women of Color Respond to Violence”, which will be published by Seal Press.
 AnaLouise Keating is a nepantlera, spiritual activist, and professor of women’s studies at Texas Woman’s University where she teaches courses on U.S. women of colors, feminist/womanist epistemologies, and queer theory.
She is co-editor, with Gloria Anzaldúa, of this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, editor of EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa and Anzaldúa’s Interviews/Entrevistas; and author of Teaching Transformation: Transcultural Classroom Dialogues and Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde.
 María Ochoa received a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz. While a graduate student, she co-founded the Research Cluster for the Study of Women of Color at the Center for Cultural Studies, so that she and others might find shelter from the storm of academic life.
Ochoa’s dissertation was designated the 1994 First Place recipient in the Thesis/Dissertation category from the National Women’s Studies Association. Ochoa was twice honored as a Ford Foundation Fellow. In recognition of her contributions to the arts, the California State Assembly named her a Woman of the Year for 1999. Her numerous publications include Creative Collectives, a groundbreaking book that documents the work of Chicana artists, and the forthcoming anthology “Shout Out!: Women of Color Respond to Violence,” co-edited with Dr. Barbara K. Ige, which will be published by Seal Press.
Ochoa teaches at San José State University in the Department of Social Science/Women’s Studies Program. Prior to her involvement in academe, she was the executive director of a community based visual arts center and a development associate for a community foundation whose funds support programs for women and girls.
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